Auckland (Fashion)
Bands: GKBKBKBW · Stripes: DG K DB K DB K DB LB DG K DB K DB K DB LB
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3043/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1999 — Auckland (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- 01/01/2000 — Auckland (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Auckland New Zealand District Tartan Tartan Number: 3043. Earliest known date: 1999 Designed by the House of Tartan for Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd, PO Box 28168, Christchurch, NZ. This company appears to have gone out of business without ever promoting the tartan. Copyright remains with the designers. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5087
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3043
Thread count
DG/6 K6 DB4 K32 DB4 K4 DB48 N/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Slanj Dress (Corporate) — ΔT 0.63
- Trotter (Personal) — ΔT 0.90
- Eglinton — ΔT 1.01
- Caledonian Dragon (Corporate) — ΔT 1.19
- Dawson-Nunes (Personal) — ΔT 1.20
- Lyndon Prep (School) — ΔT 1.21
- Moray Council — ΔT 1.21
- Pinehurst Resort — ΔT 1.23
- Murdoch Clebration (Personal) — ΔT 1.25
- Pride of Kinross — ΔT 1.26
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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